Technology Vision 2023 | When Atoms meet Bits #TechVision While we have built a rich and meaningful digital big step after digital transformation. Though some world, we haven’t really reconciled it with the may see the metaverse as the culmination of the last physical one. Challenges with digital identity and wave of digital disruption, it’s better viewed as the data interoperability leave people overwhelmed beginning of the next. The metaverse is a watershed with technology and exposed to new dimensions of moment for the convergence of atoms and bits, fraud and risk. Many enterprises watched their entire accelerating the path to a singular shared reality. workforce go digital and are now suffering attrition Across the metaverse continuum we are making the as they struggle to 昀椀gure out how to hybridize a digital world behave more like how we experience remote workforce. We haven’t even really accounted the physical, and conversely we are using metaverse for the direct impact our digital efforts have had technologies to reimagine what we do in the on the physical world, like how an estimated 昀椀ve physical world. It is the nexus between digital and billion mobile phones will be thrown out in 2022 physical—which is why some of the most powerful alone, or how for all of cloud computing’s ef昀椀ciency ways we have seen the metaverse used are ways in bene昀椀ts, it has surpassed commercial airlines in its which we fuse the two. 10, 11 contributions to global CO emissions. 2 For example, the very 昀椀rst 3D-printed steel bridge in Given how disconnected and disjointed our digital the world was built in Amsterdam and was designed and physical worlds can feel, it’s no wonder that with this kind of digital-physical hybridization the next decade of innovative efforts is starting to 12 Not only was the bridge created with in mind. 3D-printing and robotic arms, but it was also be de昀椀ned by how we fuse the two together. The foundations of this new reality are already being put designed speci昀椀cally to coexist with a digital twin. It in place, so the time to make your own mark is now. was embedded with a cutting-edge sensor network that now feeds a digital twin with real-time data on Last year, in Accenture’s 2022 Technology Vision, vibration, strain, weather conditions, and more. The we called out the Metaverse Continuum as the next twin can predict how the bridge will behave, such